[media-and-entertainment] Test runner for media devices

tidoust has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/media-and-entertainment:

== Test runner for media devices ==
Early September, Louay presented the work done within the CTA WAVE project on creating a test suite for the Web Media API specification. Relevant links:
- [Minutes of the call](https://www.w3.org/2018/09/04-me-minutes.html)
- [Slides presented by Louay](https://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/wiki/images/4/40/WEB-MEDIA-API-TEST-SUITE-Fraunhofer-FOKUS.pdf) (PDF)
- [Github repository for the test suite](https://github.com/cta-wave/WMAS2017)

The tools and test suite are based on [Web Platform Tests](https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt) (WPT). One idea would be to merge the changes made to the test runner back into WPT. Trying to come up with a list of atomic changes, my understanding is that the following contributions could perhaps be envisioned:
1. Contribute changes to `testharness.js` to allow sending back test results to a server
2. Contribute a new test runner, suitable for media (and other constrained) devices, based on a backend server. The test runner could perhaps be maintained in a separate repository
3. Consider integrating the tool that extracts the tests that pass across main browser codebases to the [WPT dashboard](https://wpt.fyi/results/)

@louaybassbouss, is that a good starting point?

I note that WPT meets at TPAC next week, on Monday and Tuesday. I also note that the project is looking at [adopting a governance model](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-test-infra/2018OctDec/0008.html) to give more formalism to the decision process.

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Received on Thursday, 18 October 2018 16:27:35 UTC